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hello everyone noob here i bought a 1990 525i with 230000 miles on it for 500 dollars. to start this off every now and again my low beam lights wont turn on, i have to pop hood open fuse box on driver side and give it a hit and they come back on. also have a very hard time starting when cold, i have to put gas to floor and turn it over for 5 seconds then it starts but ya gotta stay on the gas till its done clearing its throat ... further more both of the front seat fuses were blown .. what could have caused this. when i bought it the reason for so cheap was cause the owner before me got a new water pump installed and someone didnt know how to bleed the system, took 3 hours to get all the air out of cooling system. also with the cooling system the coolant has from what i see oil in the coolant... how could this happen? does not over heat but does leak coolant i think from the plastic thermostat housing ... to be changed i know this is quite a bit but all help is needed

Welcome! First if you have oil in your coolant then you might see what appears to be a milky residue on your radiator cap...if so unfortunately you might be looking at a blown head gasket for starters, possibly a warped head..which will need resurfacing...but I'm not a expert... I had that happen to me on a
Honda about 10yrs.ago.Good luck! Hopefully it's not the case and maybe it's not oil in your coolant
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